The Second Quantum Revolution: From Entanglement to Quantum Computing and Other Super-Technologies [Paperback]

This book tells the story of the second quantum revolution which will shape the 21^st century as much as the first quantum revolution shaped the 20^th century. It provides unique orientation in today's discussion and the latest progress on the interpretation of quantum physics and its further technological potential. 

As you read this book the first prototypes of this revolution are being built in laboratories worldwide. Super-technologies such as nanotechnology, quantum computers, quantum information processing, and others will soon shape our daily lives, even if physicists themselves continue to disagree on how to interpret the central theory of modern physics. The book will thus also touch on the profound philosophical questions at the heart of quantum mechanics.

Prologue: The white rabbit.- Part 1: Quantum 2.0  The second technological revolution arising from the quantum world:  Mighty power  How a theory of the microcosm changed our world.-Theres plenty of room at the bottom  A new generation of quantum technologies.- Technology on the smallest scales  The possibilities of nanotechnology.-  Incredibly fast  From digital to the quantum computer.- Part 2: Quantum Worlds  The bizarre in the very small: Contradictory atoms  Philosophical problems with the smallest building blocks of nature.- Natura facit saltus  On quantum jumps and particles being made out of nothing.- Tertium datur  Wave and particles at the same time.- As well as neither/-nor  Superposition: how things can be here and there at  the same time.- Loss of identity  The New Reality Concept of Quantum Physics and its Consequences.- Part 3: From Quantum Field Theories to a Theory of Everything ls&